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Best Soccer Bar

Woodwork

583 Vanderbilt Ave., at Dean St., Prospect Heights; 718-857-5777

There are other sports bars, like Nevada Smith’s (“Where football is religion!”), that attract rowdy soccer fans for early-morning matches live from the Continent. But if you can’t stomach the thought (or smell) of a dingy dive at eight in the morning, there’s Woodwork, a month-old bar that marries the usual footie atmosphere with Brooklyn’s ever-spreading barnyard-chic aesthetic. Along with the three 50-inch HDTVs constantly tuned to soccer, there’s an enormous oak bar made of floorboards salvaged from a Massachusetts dairy farm, a long list of international beers, and a menu filled with grass-fed meats and locally farmed produce. That smell wafting from the kitchen on match-day mornings? Waffles with Nutella and Balthazar sticky buns.

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So what exactly does “best” mean in a city with thousands of pizza joints, hundreds of celebrity masseuses, and museum-worthy concept shops on every corner? Well, in the case of this, our annual “Best of New York” roundup, there’s a heavy emphasis on what’s new or what has somehow remained virtually unheard of (until now, of course).